"If there was a university degree for greed, you ***** would all get first-class honours."

-- Paul Keating

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“Jamie," I said, "how, exactly, do you decide whether you're drunk?" Aroused by my voice, he swayed alarmingly to one side, but caught himself on the edge of the mantelpiece. His eyes drifted around the room, then fixed on my face. For an instant, they blazed clear and pellucid with intelligence. "och, easy, Sassenach, If ye can stand up, you're not drunk." He let go of the mantelpiece, took a step toward me, and crumpled slowly onto the hearth, eyes blank, and a wide, sweet smile on his dreaming face.”
“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”
“I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.”
“Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.”

Source : Moses Ibn Ezra (1945). “‏מחברת משירי משה בן יעקב אבן עזרא /‏”
“Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view. Disinterested labor - benevolence - is so out of their line of thought, that many look upon us as having some ulterior object in view; but He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.”
“The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.”

Source : "Art & Copy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2009.
“The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.”

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